Word: blunkett
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Just after five Britons were released from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and returned to England, British Home Secretary David Blunkett took the podium at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum yesterday and told an audience that being liberal and taking security measures are not contradictory aims...
...speech, entitled “Renewing Democracy: Why Government Must Invest in Civil Renewal,” Blunkett addressed the role of government in local and international communities...
Yesterday’s talk, sponsored by the Institute of Politics, followed Blunkett’s speech given Monday at Harvard Law School. During the question and answer session after Monday’s speech—that dealt with the global threat of terrorism—Blunkett announced that five British detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba would be released to England within 24 hours. Yesterday, five Britons returned to their homeland and four of them were arrested under the Terrorism Act while immigration authorities detained the fifth...
...Fletcher School student who refused to give her name said that Blunkett “was very persuasive,” and that it was interesting to see the contrast between the British and U.S. perspectives...
Other students, such as Tariq Baloch and Siddhauth Ohar of HLS said they were a bit disappointed that Blunkett did not oppose the detentions at Guatanamo Bay more vociferously. “He needs to stand for his principles,” Baloch said...